Dohhh!!! You've caught me!!! Shhhh!!! Don't tell anyone!!!
Yes, I've have two 797 Audio CR998s. I was trying to (let me tell it's been hard) to keep my mouth shut on this for a while; and not for the reason you might think.
I wanted to do a mic shoot-out for you guys. I wanted to try and get a hold of (somehow) a bunch of "home recording budget" large diaphragm condenser mics (up to about $1000US or so; but mainly focus on that $500US range I was talking about in some other thread in this forum, and below).
However, it's been a long summer and I feel like I haven't accomplished much. In case you haven't noticed, I haven't been saying much here either.
I've thought about going to a local pro studio around my town here (I sorta know one of the owners), but I'm not sure what his mic cabinet looks like (if it really has very many of those mics in that category I'm looking for). I've also thought about going down to the local pro audio store (Skip's Music; they have a little iso-booth) and trying to see if I can do something there. I know two of the sales-guys (one's the "head" sales-guy) pretty-well (from when I use to buy a lot of things there). They never gave me bad prices; they know I follow the going prices.
But I haven't done ANYTHING to look into it yet and I've been wanting to do this ever since I got a hold the CR998s (a few months before summer).
So if you guys want to send me all your mics, I'll finally do it. Hey Monty, Dragon, and (at least) all you guys in CA (so that includes you ametth), that SHOULD be our next Mini-Convention. I'll even host it here at my house, at my studio. Hell, I'll even take the entire weekend off to make sure things go smoothly.
As you can tell, by me not trying to discribe what I think of the CR998s, I don't want to TELL you, I want THEM to tell your ears.
I do have a live recording I did with my matched-pair of Neumann 103s and 1 CR998 in figure-8 using a Mackie VLZ-PRO pre and
a Presonus ACP-8 comp. But I'll have to explain it all in detail (when I post it, if you guys want to hear it) since there are major reason why it didn't turn-out better. But considering those circumstances, it turned-out damn well.
And I'm serious guys, lets do a mic shoot-out!